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slouch

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Teenagers can suffer from text neck when they slouch over their phones too much.

Teenagers can suffer from text neck when they slouch over their phones too much.

noun
  1. Slouch is defined as an incompetent person or a lazy, drooping, improper posture.

    1. The casual, lazy position you sit in when slumped on the sofa instead of sitting up straight is an example of a slouch.
    2. A person who is extremely skilled at playing poker is an example of someone who is no slouch at poker.

verb
  1. The definition of slouch is to move, sit or stand with bad posture, with your shoulders bent forward.

    When you are slumped over on the sofa instead of sitting up straight, this is an example of when you slouch on the sofa.


slouch

    1. a person who is awkward or lazy
    2. Informal a person who is incompetent: usually with a negative: she's no slouch at golf
    1. a drooping or bending forward of the head and shoulders
    2. slovenly posture in general
  1. a hanging down or drooping, as of a hat brim

Origin of slouch

from uncertain or unknown; perhaps dialect, dialectal slouk, a lazy fellow from Old Norse sl?kr from sl?ka, to hang down, droop from Indo-European an unverified form (s)leug-, variant, variety of base an unverified form (s)leu-, to hang limply from source slug, sleet

  1. to sit, stand, walk, etc. in a slouch
  2. to droop, as a hat brim
to cause to slouch

slouch

verb

slouched, slouch·ing, slouch·es

verb

intransitive
  1. To sit, stand, or walk with an awkward, drooping posture.
  2. To droop or hang carelessly, as a hat.

verb

transitive
To cause to droop; stoop.

noun

  1. An awkward, drooping posture or gait.
  2. Slang An awkward, lazy, or inept person: good at chess and no slouch at bridge, either.

Origin of slouch

Origin unknown

Related Forms:

  • slouch′er

    noun

  • slouch′i·ly

    adverb

  • slouch′i·ness

    noun

  • slouch′y

    adjective


slouch

Noun

(countable and uncountable, plural slouches)

  1. A hanging down of the head; a drooping posture; a limp appearance
    He sat with an unenthusiastic slouch.
  2. any depression or hanging down, as of a hat brim.
    The plant hung in a permanent slouch.
  3. (dated) An awkward, heavy, clownish fellow.
Verb

(third-person singular simple present slouches, present participle slouching, simple past and past participle slouched)

  1. (intransitive) To hang or droop; to adopt a limp posture
    Do not slouch when playing a flute.
  2. (intransitive) To walk in a clumsy, lazy manner.
    I slouched to the fridge to see if there was anything to eat.
Origin

From Old Norse slókr (“a slouching, lazy fellow") , (cognate to Swedish sloka, to wilt, slouch.


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  • slouch-hats
  • slouching
  • no-slouch
  • slouches
  • slouched
  • slouchy
  • slouch-hat
  • slump
  • loll
  • idler

Words near slouch in the dictionary


  • slotting fee
  • slotting-machine
  • slotting-machines
  • slottings
  • slouch
  • slouch hat
  • slouch-hat
  • slouch-hats
  • slouched
  • sloucher

Synonyms

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  • loll
  • slump
  • move
  • posture
  • bungler
  • droop

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